living sheep and peck its
way down to the kidney-fat, for which this parrot has a special
fancy. No tourist need feel compunction about shooting a kea."

1893. A. R. Wallace, `Australasia,' vol. i. p. 445:

"Another very interesting group of birds are the large dull
colonial parrots of the genus Nestor, called kea or kaka by the
natives from their peculiar cries. Their natural food is
berries . . . but of late years the kea (<i>Nestor
notabilis</i>), a mountain species found only in the South
Island, has developed a curious liking for meat, and now
attacks living sheep, settling on their backs and tearing away
the skin and flesh to get at the kidney fat."

1895. `Otago Witness,' Dec. 26, p. 3, col. 1:

"There is in the Alpine regions of the South Island a plant
popularly called the `vegetable sheep,' botanically named
<i>Raoulia</i>. From the distance of even a few yards it looks
like a sheep. It grows in great masses, and consists of a
woolly vegetation. A large specimen of this singular plant was
exhibited in the Colonial and Indian Exhibition. It is said
that the kea was in the habit of tearing it up to get at the
grubs which harbour within the mass, and that mistaking dead
sheep for vegetable sheep it learned the taste of mutton. A
more enterprising generation preferred its mutton rather
fresher."

<hw>Kelp-fish</hw>, <i>n</i>. In New Zealand, also called
<i>Butter-fish</i> (q.v.), <i>Coridodax pullus</i>, Forst.
In Tasmania, <i>Odax baleatus</i>, Cuv. and Val.; called
also <i>Ground Mullet</i> by the fishermen. In Victoria,
<i>Chironemus marmoratus</i>, Gunth. <i>Coridodax</i> and
<i>Odax</i> belong to the family <i>Labridae</i> or Wrasses,
which comprises the <i>Rock-Whitings</i>; <i>Chironemus</i>
to the family <i>Cirrhitidae</i>. The name is also given
in New Zealand to another fish, the <i>Spotty</i> (q.v.).
These fishes are all different from the Californian food-
fishes of the same name.

1841. J. Richardson, `Description of Australian Fishes,'
p. 148:

"This fish is known at Port Arthur by the appellation of
`Kelp-fish,' I suppose from its frequenting the thickets of
the larger fuci."

<hw>Kennedya</hw>, <i>n</i>. the scientific name of a genus of
perennial leguminous herbs of the bean family-named, in 1804,
after Mr. Kennedy, a gardener at Hammersmith, near London.
There are seventeen species, all natives of Australia and
Tasmania, many of them cultivated for the sake of thei